Service Delivery Contract Job Trends in England

Service Delivery
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Service Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 119 110
Rank change year-on-year -8 -9 +28
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 720 587 808
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.22% 2.20% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 2.46% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 329 533
10th Percentile £200 £230 £205
25th Percentile £320 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £718
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 66 82
10th Percentile £15.35 - £13.41
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £19.26 £16.23 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.64% -4.53% -20.93%
75th Percentile £38.94 £21.46 £55.00
90th Percentile £45.46 £33.13 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £17.87 £16.23 £18.00
% change year-on-year +10.10% -9.83% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Service Delivery falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,483 23,837 32,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.89% 89.40% 87.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,219 14,596 22,102
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,784 766 1,805
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.14
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.06 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -8.41% +9.93%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -10.55% +16.41%

Service Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Service Delivery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Service Delivery job vacancy trend in England

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Service Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Service Delivery

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Delivery in England over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Service Delivery in England

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Service Delivery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Service Delivery

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Service Delivery in England over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Service Delivery in England

Service Delivery
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Delivery within the England region over the 6 months to 25 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -19 243 £500 -9.09% 111
North of England +16 142 £449 +17.10% 112
South West +21 102 £424 -14.23% 53
South East -7 100 £450 - 167
Midlands -15 97 £450 +3.57% 80
North West +12 87 £425 +27.82% 48
West Midlands -30 54 £465 -0.11% 43
East Midlands -7 43 £450 +26.40% 37
Yorkshire -18 39 £450 -15.73% 46
East of England -48 26 £425 -19.05% 56
North East -1 16 £450 -43.75% 19
Service Delivery
UK

Service Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 25 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
1 25 (3.47%) SharePoint
2 23 (3.19%) Confluence
3 5 (0.69%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (0.28%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.28%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.28%) WildFly
5 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.14%) Camunda
5 1 (0.14%) CMS
5 1 (0.14%) Documentum
5 1 (0.14%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.14%) Moodle
5 1 (0.14%) nginx
5 1 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 52 (7.22%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (5.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.69%) Acrobat
4 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.56%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.56%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.28%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.28%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.28%) InVision
6 2 (0.28%) Sketch
6 2 (0.28%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 21 (2.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.83%) SAP IS-U
5 4 (0.56%) assyst
5 4 (0.56%) Maximo
6 3 (0.42%) Kondor
7 2 (0.28%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.14%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.14%) iTrent
8 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.14%) Sprinklr
8 1 (0.14%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 92 (12.78%) Azure
2 86 (11.94%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (6.67%) AWS
4 24 (3.33%) SaaS
5 23 (3.19%) Power Platform
6 19 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (2.64%) Entra ID
7 15 (2.08%) Power Automate
8 12 (1.67%) GCP
9 11 (1.53%) SuccessFactors
10 9 (1.25%) OneDrive
11 7 (0.97%) GitHub
12 6 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (0.83%) Google Workspace
12 6 (0.83%) Serverless
13 5 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (0.69%) OpenShift
14 4 (0.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.47%) Firewall
2 22 (3.06%) DNS
3 21 (2.92%) VPN
4 20 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 18 (2.50%) DHCP
6 14 (1.94%) WAN
7 13 (1.81%) PABX
8 11 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (1.39%) LAN
10 6 (0.83%) Network Security
11 4 (0.56%) AMQP
11 4 (0.56%) BGP
11 4 (0.56%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.56%) VLAN
11 4 (0.56%) Wireless
12 3 (0.42%) SAN
12 3 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
13 2 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
13 2 (0.28%) NAS
13 2 (0.28%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.08%) Power BI
2 12 (1.67%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.39%) Relational Database
4 6 (0.83%) Metadata
4 6 (0.83%) MySQL
4 6 (0.83%) Tableau
5 5 (0.69%) Electronic Patient Records
5 5 (0.69%) RDBMS
6 4 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.56%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.28%) DTS
7 2 (0.28%) Looker
8 1 (0.14%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.14%) Power Query
8 1 (0.14%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 62 (8.61%) JIRA
2 14 (1.94%) Git
3 10 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.69%) GitLab
4 5 (0.69%) Postman
5 4 (0.56%) Maven
6 2 (0.28%) Axure RP
6 2 (0.28%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.28%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.28%) TestRail
7 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.14%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.14%) gulp
7 1 (0.14%) MLflow
7 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.14%) Selenium
7 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.14%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.14%) Yeoman
General
1 330 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 133 (18.47%) Finance
3 119 (16.53%) Public Sector
4 102 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 31 (4.31%) Retail
7 27 (3.75%) Legal
8 26 (3.61%) Telecoms
9 23 (3.19%) Banking
9 23 (3.19%) Marketing
10 22 (3.06%) Manufacturing
11 21 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
12 20 (2.78%) Local Government
13 14 (1.94%) Electronics
14 13 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (1.25%) Military
17 6 (0.83%) Law
18 5 (0.69%) Billing
Job Titles
1 145 (20.14%) Analyst
2 85 (11.81%) Service Manager
3 84 (11.67%) Lead
4 54 (7.50%) Delivery Manager
5 46 (6.39%) Service Delivery Manager
6 41 (5.69%) Senior
7 38 (5.28%) Support Analyst
8 33 (4.58%) 2nd Line Support
8 33 (4.58%) IT Support
9 30 (4.17%) Business Analyst
10 29 (4.03%) IT Manager
11 27 (3.75%) Service Analyst
11 27 (3.75%) Support Engineer
12 25 (3.47%) Architect
13 21 (2.92%) 1st/2nd Line Support
14 20 (2.78%) Administrator
14 20 (2.78%) IT Analyst
15 18 (2.50%) Consultant
15 18 (2.50%) Desktop Support
15 18 (2.50%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.06%) REST
2 13 (1.81%) HTML
3 11 (1.53%) Middleware
4 10 (1.39%) CSS
4 10 (1.39%) SOAP
5 8 (1.11%) XML
6 7 (0.97%) Kafka
6 7 (0.97%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (0.83%) AngularJS
8 5 (0.69%) JSON
8 5 (0.69%) RESTful
9 4 (0.56%) .NET
9 4 (0.56%) Bootstrap
9 4 (0.56%) LangChain
9 4 (0.56%) LangGraph
9 4 (0.56%) SailPoint
9 4 (0.56%) Spring
9 4 (0.56%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.42%) scikit-learn
10 3 (0.42%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.97%) Onboarding
2 33 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
3 30 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 30 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.47%) Virtual Team
5 19 (2.64%) Smartphone
6 18 (2.50%) CMDB
7 17 (2.36%) Data Centre
8 15 (2.08%) Driving Licence
8 15 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.67%) NHS
10 9 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.25%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.11%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
12 7 (0.97%) Cloud Native
12 7 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 6 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 107 (14.86%) Windows
2 25 (3.47%) Linux
3 24 (3.33%) Windows 10
4 19 (2.64%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.81%) Android
6 10 (1.39%) Unix
7 9 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (1.11%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.56%) CentOS
9 4 (0.56%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.28%) VMS
11 1 (0.14%) AIX
11 1 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.14%) Solaris
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (32.50%) ITIL
2 194 (26.94%) Continuous Improvement
3 180 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 170 (23.61%) Agile
5 143 (19.86%) ITSM
6 125 (17.36%) Service Management
7 123 (17.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 120 (16.67%) Customer Service
9 107 (14.86%) Change Management
10 92 (12.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 80 (11.11%) DevOps
12 70 (9.72%) Project Management
13 69 (9.58%) Project Delivery
14 64 (8.89%) Roadmaps
15 59 (8.19%) User Experience
16 57 (7.92%) Incident Management
17 53 (7.36%) Cybersecurity
17 53 (7.36%) Service Design
18 52 (7.22%) Coaching
19 48 (6.67%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 39 (5.42%) PowerShell
2 30 (4.17%) Python
3 29 (4.03%) SQL
4 24 (3.33%) Java
5 17 (2.36%) JavaScript
6 7 (0.97%) Bash
7 5 (0.69%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.42%) Perl
8 3 (0.42%) Scala
9 2 (0.28%) Bicep
9 2 (0.28%) C#
9 2 (0.28%) Go
10 1 (0.14%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 192 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 166 (23.06%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.78%) Degree
4 33 (4.58%) ITIL Certification
5 27 (3.75%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (1.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 11 (1.53%) MOS
9 8 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 8 (1.11%) MCP
9 8 (1.11%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.97%) CISSP
10 7 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (0.97%) PMP
11 6 (0.83%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.83%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.69%) CCNA
12 5 (0.69%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (11.25%) SLA
2 25 (3.47%) GDPR
3 18 (2.50%) QA
4 17 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.08%) PMO
6 14 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (1.11%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.69%) NIST
8 5 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 4 (0.56%) NCSC
9 4 (0.56%) WCAG
10 3 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.42%) COBIT
10 3 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.28%) GRC
11 2 (0.28%) ITGC
11 2 (0.28%) P3O
12 1 (0.14%) HL7
System Software
1 65 (9.03%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.53%) Docker
3 9 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.28%) vSphere
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.14%) NFS
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (2.64%) SCCM
3 15 (2.08%) Terraform
4 13 (1.81%) Ansible
5 10 (1.39%) Kubernetes
6 8 (1.11%) Grafana
6 8 (1.11%) SCOM
7 7 (0.97%) HP SiteScope
8 4 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.42%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.28%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.28%) Nagios
10 2 (0.28%) SCOrch
11 1 (0.14%) Amdocs OSS
11 1 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.14%) Kibana
11 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.14%) SnapMirror
11 1 (0.14%) SnapVault
11 1 (0.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 141 (19.58%) Microsoft
2 75 (10.42%) ServiceNow
3 44 (6.11%) SAP
4 27 (3.75%) Oracle
5 24 (3.33%) Remedy
6 18 (2.50%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.08%) Google
8 14 (1.94%) Citrix
9 13 (1.81%) VMware
10 12 (1.67%) Splunk
11 11 (1.53%) Cisco
12 10 (1.39%) Apple
13 8 (1.11%) Adobe
13 8 (1.11%) Mitel
14 7 (0.97%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.97%) Palo Alto
15 6 (0.83%) Genesys
15 6 (0.83%) Veeam
15 6 (0.83%) Zscaler
16 5 (0.69%) BMC